Safety-pin



(No Model.)

'1). A. CARPENTER.

SAFETY PIN.

No. 360,276. Patented Mar. 29,- 1887.

WITNESSES.-

,ATENT DAXIEL A. CARPENTER, OF FEWV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JOEL JENKINS, OF MONTGLAIR, NEW JERSEY.

SAFETY-JUN.

SPE OIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,276, dated March 29, 1887.

Application filed September 16, 1886. Serial No. -2l3,TO-l. (No model.)

To all whom, it 12mg concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL A. CARPENTER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have-invented a certain new and useful Im- 5 proved Safety-Pin, of which I declare the fol lowing to be a full, clear, and exact specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to improvements in i safety-pins in which provision is made for locking the point of the pin in its shield; and the invention consists of a safety-pin constructed substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

1 In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure l is a side view of my safety-pin with its point free from the shield. Fig. 2 is alike view when the point is at rest in the shield and the locking operation has been partly per- 2 formed. Fig. 8 is an edge view after the locking operation has been completed. Fig. 4 is an edge view with the parts disposed as in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 shows a way of bending the wire for the shield, differing somewhat from that which appears in the other figures.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several views.

The improvement which constitutes this invention appertains in particular to the shield of the pin, which it renders specially secure as a guardfor the pins sharpened member, and it enables a pin to be produced for a comparativel y low cost which,in addition to being perfectly safe, has the advantage of being 3 5 easily operated when put in use, and is also of neat appearance and equally as serviceable as any among the old and well-known varieties.

There is nothing new in the sharpened member a or coil-spring b of this pin, they being the same as in pins of common construction.

The unsharpened member a is also of the ordinary shape up to that part which is formed into the guard. The wire of this portion of the member is bent to adapt it to properly re- 4 5 ceive and retain the sharpened end of the memher a, and may be given either the form shown in Figs. 1, 4. or'the one in Fig. 5. Doubtless other forms might also be devised which would serve as well as the ones that are here illustrated, so that I do not wish it to be understood that the invention is in this particular limited to the precise construction represented in the drawings. Across the space between the bend (Z and the body of the member 0, and at right angles to the latter, extends the part 6, which 5 5 is ultimately looped to the member at or near the point f,as will be subsequently mentioned. Surrounding the bent part ,and reaching from the pointfto the fold t, is a spring-coil A of light wire. The members of this coil should be somewhat separated and its length such as to cause it to fill snugly all of the space allotted to it. The coil, too, should be of sufficient diameter to allow its members to slide freely on the part 9 when they are pressed to 6 5 gcther, and the mouth h large enough to re ceive, in addition to the part g, also the point of the pin when the latter is brought into the proper position. After adjusting the coilA about the part 9, the end of the wire atf may be looped around the body of the member 0 at that point, as shown in the figures, when the coil will be secured permanently in place and the construction of the pin be completed. The coil A is of course formed by a separate oper- 7 5 ation from any of those which produce the other parts of the pin, and it may be united with these parts before the formation of the coil-spring b, or even afterward, when the members of that coil are elastic enough to allow the wire of the lighter coil to pass between them.

Now, when the sharpened member is disengaged from the shicld,it can evidently be thrust through a piece of fabric, garment, or other article in the same manner as a common pin. The point of the member is then passed through the space an and behind the fold i, the part 0 serving as a guide,and permitted to rest within the bend d, and it should there lie as close to the side of the part 9 to which it is adjacent as the coil A will allow. Thus far the operation is substantially the same as that required in the case of any ordinary safety-pin. The mouth of the coil A is now drawn away from the fold i, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, when the point moves still closer to the side of the part g, and the coil is then released, whereupon it assumes again its normal position; but in this instance it also surrounds the point of the pin, as in Fig. 3, for which it forms at the same time a guardand a lock,from which the point is not at all likely to become disengaged by aceident. To freethe point of the pin from the shield, it is simply necessary to draw the rest for the point of the pin, said coil being adapted to guard the pointand lock it in the shield, substantially as described. I 5

2. A safety-pin having the following elements in combination: the sharpened member a, coil-spring 1), member 0, and the shield formed by the bend g, fold i, bend (1, part c,

looped .to the member 0, and spring-coi1 A, all 20 constructed and combined substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

DANIEL A. CARPENTER. In presence of ELWOOD W. HANNAS, A. F. WEHNER. 

